I understand all three concepts are inter-connected, but would love to get an ei5 explanation of each and how they’re related. Thank you in advance.
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Internet – these are the interconnected computer networks (network of networks) that use TCP/IP (primarily) to communicate. Think of this as all the highways and roads and intersections and directions and address that connect all the cities and towns and villages to each person’s home so someone can deliver mail to you
TCP/IP – this is the protocol that data on the Internet communicates over. This tells you HOW to packetize your data, address your data, transmit it, route it, etc. Think of this as the rules that govern how you get a package to someone elsewhere – and these rules go all the way down to how you package it and how it goes from point A to point B.
WWW – this stands for World Wide Web. This uses Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) – like when you type in reddit.com – to tell your browser or app to go to that web address.
This is all very simplified, but essentially the Internet is the collection of hardware/networking technology. The infrastructure, if you will.
TCP/IP is how you actually use the Internet – this is the protocol to communicate on there, so everyone is talking in the same language. When you access a website, it’s translating things into TCP/IP which actually sends the data back and forth over the Internet.
And WWW is built on top of all that, and is one way to access and view websites. It is typically transparent to the user, but TCP/IP is underlying all this (e.g., if you go to reddit.com, you’re actually connecting to an IP address and you’re loading memes from packets of data using the TCP/IP protocol, but that’s all going on in the background)
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